Just read that an ESPN writer has been critical this year of Arizona's baseball coaches for overusing their pitcher's arms. Here's a link:
Arizona Wildcats baseball slammed over pitchers use
Seems like the conventional Little League argument. One pitcher threw 122 pitches yesterday and another pitcher threw 108 (or something like that) in the first game of the CWS. Arizona responds (questionably, from my point of view) that their pitchers nap more and it eases the physiologic strain (or something like that - I never heard that one).
In any case, there HAD to be a handful of young women in the NCAA post-season and WCWS that threw way more than that. I've read a couple papers where biomechanics gurus said there essentially is little, if any, difference between the strain on the shoulder/arm in delivering an overhand baseball pitch or windmill fastpitch.
Wonder what this sports writer would say if he knew the pitch counts in the Championship series a few years back between Traina and Ricketts. Or the Arizona series a couple years back when Pinon threw 208 or 212 or 220 or whatever it was and pitched a game a couple days prior or after. Or maybe I'm ignorant to something and completely out of line for thinking college men and college women pitch counts can be directly compared....
Whatchya all think?
Arizona Wildcats baseball slammed over pitchers use
Seems like the conventional Little League argument. One pitcher threw 122 pitches yesterday and another pitcher threw 108 (or something like that) in the first game of the CWS. Arizona responds (questionably, from my point of view) that their pitchers nap more and it eases the physiologic strain (or something like that - I never heard that one).
In any case, there HAD to be a handful of young women in the NCAA post-season and WCWS that threw way more than that. I've read a couple papers where biomechanics gurus said there essentially is little, if any, difference between the strain on the shoulder/arm in delivering an overhand baseball pitch or windmill fastpitch.
Wonder what this sports writer would say if he knew the pitch counts in the Championship series a few years back between Traina and Ricketts. Or the Arizona series a couple years back when Pinon threw 208 or 212 or 220 or whatever it was and pitched a game a couple days prior or after. Or maybe I'm ignorant to something and completely out of line for thinking college men and college women pitch counts can be directly compared....
Whatchya all think?